24-02-2012, 08:16 PM
Hello David, that is a very good insight that you have given...While doing my family history research I came across the records of the Old Bailey which are on line, in these records I found several references to distant members of the family, while studying these records I became interested how sentences seemed to change over the years, at one piont they more or less hanged everybody for anything but later on when they needed bodies for the colonies they were sentanced to so many years "beyond the seas" usually a reference to Van Damiens Land and Australia.
One trial concerned a young boy who was a wittness to a burglary he was one of our distant relatives, his name was Daniel Sharpe, below is a link to the court transcription at the Old Bailey at that time, iot is interesting how they stress the meaning of the "oath" in the first paragraph of the transcription.
Reading through many of the trials is interesting reading from a history piont of view.
Here is the link:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ance...ly1781.htm
Lawrence.
One trial concerned a young boy who was a wittness to a burglary he was one of our distant relatives, his name was Daniel Sharpe, below is a link to the court transcription at the Old Bailey at that time, iot is interesting how they stress the meaning of the "oath" in the first paragraph of the transcription.
Reading through many of the trials is interesting reading from a history piont of view.
Here is the link:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ance...ly1781.htm
Lawrence.
